Belt positioner



C. M. STEPHAN BELT POSITIONER May 29, 1951 Filed June 25, 1948 INVENTOR CrZeZS/@M ATTO R N EYS,

Patented May 29, v1951 UNITED STATES PATENT ori-ICE BELT PosrrIoNER Charles M. Stephan, Lancaster, Pa. Application June 25, 1948,' serial No. 35,134

1 Claim. l

The present invention relates to the positioning of trouser belts.

A'purpose of the invention is to hold a belt in the proper position circumferentially around the body and also vertically.

A further purpose is to avoid displacement of the lower part of the shirt incident to slipping of the belt with respect to its normal position.

A :further purpose is to hold the bar of a bar buckle on a belt by a loop extending through a button-hole at the center of the front of the trousers.

Further purposes appear in the specification and in the claim.

In the drawings I have chosen to illustrate one only of the numerous embodiments in which my invention might appear, choosing the forms shown from the standpoints of convenience in illustration, satisfactory operation and clear demonstration of the principles involved.

Figure l is a perspective of my novel belt positioner.

Figure 2 is a perspective showing the belt positioner being applied to the trousers.

Figure 3 is a perspective illustrating the belt in position held by the belt positioner. p

Figure 4 is a fragmentary top plan view, in part in central longitudinal section, through the belt at the positioner.

Described in illustration but not in limitation and referring to the drawings:

Much difliculty and discomfort is caused to men wearing belts, due to the displacement of the belt with respect to the trousers. Some wearers nd that the belt has a tendency to travel circumferentially around the body, causing the buckle to achieve a position at one side or the otherfof the center, and often causing discomfort. In Aother cases, the buckle may have a tendency to deect vertically, with the result that the trousers may pull up in the crotch, or the shirt may bulge or pull out of the trousers. In eX- treme cases the buckle may raise and cause a bulge of the shirt between the belt and the trousers.

Efforts have been made to overcome difficulties of this kind, usually by having close spacing of belt loops, but this expedient is troublesome and only partially effective, since it does not restrain the belt circumferentially and necessitates more care in threading the belt.

The present invention is concerned with a very simple and economical belt positioner, applicable to bar buckle belts. The present invention is not applicable to belts having box type buckles, in which a bar or tongue is not used.

In accordance with the invention the anchorage is provided between one of the button-holes at the center of the top of the trousers and the bar of the bar buckle, limiting circumferential motion to the length of the bar, practically assuring against vertical change of position of the front of the belt.

As shown in Figure l, the belt positioner of the invention is preferably made from a single integral piece of wire or strip, suitably brass, bronze, gold alloy, silver alloy, iron or steel, and preferably plated with a precious metal in the case of brass, bronze, iron or steel. Two bases, 20 and 2l are provided, desirably consisting of loops of wire, lying in substantially the same plane. The bases are connected by a wire loop 22 extending transversely to the bases, having a comparatively narrow spacing at 23'where the loop joins the bases so that the loop can extend through a button-hole, and having a wide enough interior opening at the front 24 to surround the bar 25 of a buckle 26 of a belt 2l'.

As best seen in Figures 2 and 3, the positioner is inserted in one of the button-holes 28 at the front center top portion of the trousers, the bases anchoring against the reverse face 29 of the trousers on either side of the button-hole and the loop 22 protruding through the front of the button-hole.

The position of the buttonhole which receives the positioner may vary with the design of the particular trousers, but will normally be the top button-hole of the series at the top of the fly 30.

The belt is threaded through the belt loops 3l at the top of the trousers in the normal manner until the buckle is centralized at the front, and then the bar of the buckle is inserted into the loop of the belt positioner by slightly opening the bar and pressing the loop into the space between the bar of the buckle and then carrying the loop of the positioner over the bar.

In order to facilitate this operation of inserting the bar, the loop is desirably made sufficiently elongated from the base to give requisite length.

Subsequently the belt is engaged in the buckle in the usual manner as shown in Figure 4, where the bar 25 extends through an opening 32 of the belt and the belt section beyond the buckle is engaged in a keeper 34. The opening 32 is somewhat larger than the bar of the buckle and there is a tendency for the loop of the positioner to extend out through the opening, as indicated at 35, although in some cases the positioner may remain entirely behind the belt portion It Will thus be seen that the eifect of the positioner is to hold the belt against displacement both circumferentially and vertically, producing a very neat appearance by the wearer, even when he is engaged in active work which involves bending, stooping or climbing.

In view of my invention and disclosure Variations and modifications to meet individual whim or particular need will doubtless become evident to others skilled in the art, to obtain all or part of the benets of my invention without copying the process and structure shown and I therefore, claim all such insofar as they fall within the reasonable spirit and scope of my claim.

Having thus described my invention what I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent is:

A buckle bar retaining device for use with trousers having a button hole in the waist band adjacent the ily thereof, and having a belt encircling the waistband providing a bar buckle with the bar thereof traversing the button hole;

REFERENCES CITED The following references are of record in the le of this patent:

UNITED STATES PATENTS Number Name Date 849,677 Grote Apr. 9, 1907 1,069,774 Fensterwald et al. Aug. 12, 1913 1,184,413 Blumenthal May 23, 1916 1,237,326 Goozey Aug. 21, 1917 McDonald May 21, 1918 

